Woozle/art

A Brief History of Me and Art

In middle school (1975-79), I drew comics that were mostly pretty terrible; the lone presentable relic from that era is an intro panel for Store Trek, which I digitally cleaned up and re-lettered sometime in the 21st century. As a result of all that comic-style lettering, though, I did discover that I much prefer writing in block-caps; it comes much more naturally than cursive.

I think this was the first design.

Also arguably falling within the realm of "art", I plotted out some designs based on sine waves on the new graphics computer at my dad's lab.

In high school (1979-82), one art teacher described me as "an artist whose paintings occasionally turn out to be singing poems". This might have had more impact if any other teachers had had anything nice to say about my work, but this is pretty much the only time I remember a teacher being positive about my creative work. I don't think I still have any of the paintings, though, and I'm not even sure which ones she was referring to.

I also participated in a mini-session group that painted a mural on the side of the school pavilion.

My section of the mural was supposed to be a sort of science-fictional structure, but I didn't have time to finish it. There's a bit more here.

In college (1982-83), I drew a lot of very depressed stuff.

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  "Suicide Alley"

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  This was one of the rare times where I just drew how I felt. Obviously, I was not feeling great.

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  watercolor of my "depression creature"